The Trade Effects of Border Controls: Evidence from the European Schengen Agreement

Gabriel Felbermayr, Jasmin Katrin Gröschl and Thomas Steinwachs
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jasmin Groeschl

No 213, ifo Working Paper Series from ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Abstract: The Schengen agreement has guaranteed unchecked travel across internal EU borders since 1995. Has it also facilitated trade flows? Our econometric analysis suggests that Schengen has boosted trade by 3% on average (equivalent to a drop in tariffs by 0.7 percentage points). Goods trade is more robustly affected than services, and peripheral countries benefit more than central ones.

JEL-codes: F10 F15 N74 N94 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Journal Article: The Trade Effects of Border Controls: Evidence from the European Schengen Agreement (2018)
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